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It remains to decide whether only what is known in sense
exists There or whether, on the contrary, as Absolute-Man differs
from individual man, so there is in the Supreme an Absolute-Soul
differing from Soul and an Absolute-Intellect differing from
Intellectual-Principle.
It must be stated at the outset that we cannot take all that is
here to be image of archetype, or Soul to be an image of
Absolute-Soul: one soul, doubtless, ranks higher than another,
but here too, though perhaps not as identified with this realm,
is the Absolute-Soul.
Every soul, authentically a soul, has some form of rightness and
moral wisdom; in the souls within ourselves there is true
knowing: and these attributes are no images or copies from the
Supreme, as in the sense-world, but actually are those very
originals in a mode peculiar to this sphere. For those Beings are
not set apart in some defined place; wherever there is a soul
that has risen from body, there too these are: the world of sense
is one- where, the Intellectual Kosmos is everywhere. Whatever
the freed soul attains to here, that it is There.
Thus, if by the content of the sense-world we mean simply the
visible objects, then the Supreme contains not only what is in
the realm of sense but more: if in the content of the kosmos we
mean to include Soul and the Soul-things, then all is here that
is There.
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